See Also
- Border fence
- Castra
- Citadel
- Coastal fortification
- Defensive wall
- Hesco bastion
- List of fortifications
- List of forts
- Military camp
Fort components
- Abatis
- Banquette
- Barbed wire, Razor wire, Wire entanglement, and Wire obstacle
- Bartizan
- Bastion
- Berm
- Caponier
- Casemate
- Curtain
- Czech hedgehog
- Defensive fighting position (aka a "foxhole")
- Ditch
- Embrasure
- Glacis
- Gun turret
- Keep
- Palisade
- Parapet
- Pillbox
- Postern
- Ravelin
- Revetment
- Sandbag
- Sangar
- Scarp and Counterscarp
- Turret
Types of forts and fortification
- Bastion fortress
- Blockhouse
- Bunker
- Castle
- City wall
- Chinese city wall
- Compound
- Diaolou
- Fire support base
- Flak tower
- Grad, a Slavic wooden fortified settlement
- Hill fort
- Land battery
- Martello tower
- Medieval fortification
- Missile silo
- Pā a 19th-century Māori fortification
- Peel tower
- Polygonal fort
- Promontory fort
- Redoubt
- Stockade
- Star fort
Fortification and siege warfare
- Medieval warfare
- Military engineer
- Military history
- Siege
- Siege engine
Famous experts
- Henri Alexis Brialmont
- César Cui
- Bernard de Gomme
- Mozi
- Diades of Pella
- James of St. George
- Fritz Todt
- Menno van Coehoorn
- Vauban
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